"When I shut my eyes I see the cabin in the valley, and when I dream it is of things which happen in a mountainous country." "I am alone in the great house," he continued, "and the floors echo somewhat loudly.

The garden, too; beside myself there is no one to smell the roses or to walk in the moonlight.

I had forgotten the isolation of these great plantations.

Each is a province and a despotism.

If the despot has neither kith nor kin, has not yet made friends, and cares not to draw company from the quarters, he is lonely.